Correspondence with Nuremberg War Crime Trials authorities

With the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) and the Office, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes (OCCWC) as main addressees among others, the correspondence centres primarily on access to and acquisition of material produced during the Nuremberg Trials. Noteworthy are the following issues:

The involvement of The Wiener Library in preparations of the Nuremberg Trials by disseminating information and information material (1945-46); journeys of Louis Bondy (1946) and Alfred Wiener (1948) to Nuremberg and Munich to compile available documents and secure their transfer to the Library; the consignment of documents, reports and similar material to the Library by William H. Mercer, British Liaison Officer at OCCWC (1948-49); discussion with several individuals, including R. Kempner, D. A. Sprecher and O. John on the options of further usage of the acquired material (1949).

Beside letters the correspondence contains some third party documents, telegrams, two reports by Alfred Wiener about his journey to Nuremberg and Munich (December 1948), a memo of a meeting Wiener’s with Otto John (1949), an Information Services Division telephone directory (1949), undated list of items related to the Nuremberg Trials and of addresses in the American Zone of Germany, and a reprint from The Times regarding the Library’s search for new premises (1957).